Posted by
Aaron McLucas on Monday, April 28, 2008 8:11:10 PM
Former Prime Minister Margart Thatcher's energy minister, Nigel Lawson, has come out with a new book, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming.
He isn't buying it. Part way into the article came one of the unfortunante truths about Europe and it's unquestioned belief in global warming.
After serving on a House of Lords committee investigating the economics of global warming, Lawson himself concluded that the science behind it was not as certain as many people believe, and that the measures being taken to address the warming of the globe are economically damaging.
Then he wrote his book. “But despite being promoted by an outstanding literary agent,” he says, “the book was rejected by every British publisher to whom it was submitted – and there were a considerable number of them.” (It went to an American-owned publisher in the end.) The problem, Lawson believes, was that “to question global warming is regarded as sacrilege”. He gives a faint snort. “I hate intolerance. The only thing I won’t tolerate is intolerance.”
I guess in England, as an independent publisher, you don't dare publish a book questioning the IPCC, the U.N. or the global scientific communty about climate change; you would certainly never sell another book. Intolerance is too light a word for it.
I prefer stupidity.